Sunning Time

I've seen fewer than usual turtles this season wandering the roads.  Early spring I'm on the lookout for mamas searching for places to bury their eggs.  Later I look for hatchlings walking back from the nest to the water. We had one mama visit our yard in the spring and I escorted a baby across Westport Road several weeks after that. That's lower numbers than usual but I'm trusting that they're just staying off the roads this year, not that their overall numbers are down.

Today's sighting was of an adolescent sunning on a rock along our shoreline.